Prime-time network TV listings for Friday April 27, 1973:
Program details:
| [CBS 8:00] Mission: Impossible [Reg]: TOD-5
Season 7, episode 5 W: James D. Buchanan, Ronald Austin D: Lewis Allen With Peter Haskell (Gordon Holt), Ray Walston (Dr. Victor Flory), Ross Elliott (Paul Morse), Michael Conrad (Ralph Davies), James McCallion (Green). To locate a terrorist ring called Alpha Group, the IMF convinces a turncoat that he's been exposed to the stolen biological weapon he's been hired to deliver. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/14/1972)
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| [ABC 8:00] The Brady Bunch [Reg]: Cyrano de Brady
Season 4, episode 5 W: Skip Webster D: Hal Cooper With Kym Karath (Kerry). Peter has a crush on Jan's friend Kerry, and when his efforts are frustrated he goes to Greg for help. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/20/1972)
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| [NBC 8:00] Sanford And Son [Reg]: Have Gun, Will Sell
Season 2, episode 7 W: Adell Stevenson D: Rick Edelstein With Hal Williams (Officer Smith), Noam Pitlik (Officer Swanhauser), William Hansen (Pawnbroker), Paula Victor (Customer), Dilart Heyson (Burglar). Lamont and Rollo come home late and find a burglar in the house. They scare him off, but he leaves his gun behind. Rollo convinces Fred and Lamont that they could make some money if they pawn the gun. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/3/1972)
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| [ABC 8:30] The Partridge Family [Reg]: Whatever Happened To Keith Partridge?
Season 3, episode 11 W: Susan Harris D: Bruce Bilson With Shelley Morrison (Mrs. Kornegge), Jim Connell (Gus Gorney), Ray Buktenica (Assistant Director), Robert B. Williams (Otis Butrum), Cindy Cassell (Kitty), Claire Wilcox (Cindy). Keith makes a screen test for an important role in a gangster film and the family plans a surprise party for him. (Repeat program, originally aired 11/24/1972)
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| [NBC 8:30] The Little People [Reg]: The Stork Is Alive In Hawaii
Season 1, episode 5 Dr. Sean Jamison is determined not to address the local PTA despite Puni's pleading, and he convinces her that his daughter Anne would be the ideal speaker. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/13/1972)
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| [CBS 9:00] Movie: Hook, Line & Sinker (1969)
W: Rod Amateau D: George Marshall With Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Anne Francis, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Henry Corden, Phillip Pine, Kathleen Freeman. A man is told by his doctor and best friend that he has a terminal illness. At his wife's urging, he lives life to the fullest, racking up insurmountable debts.
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| [ABC 9:00] Room 222 [Reg]
(Repeat program)
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| [NBC 9:00] The American Experience: Strange And Terrible Times [special]
The second in a series of 10 dramatic essays keyed to the American Revolution Bicentennial dwells on the crises that threatened the existence of the United States. The program re-creates three precarious periods in U.S. history - the Revolutionary War, the Civil War and the Great Depression - relating these struggles of the past to the violence and upheaval of the present. Ralph Bellamy acts as storyteller of an incident involving Gen. George Washington (struggle to consummate the Declaration of Independence). Host-narrator Chet Huntley also tells about incidents involving Abraham Lincoln (the issue of slavery) and the early 30s Depression (the Dust Bowl, labor unrest and breadlines).
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| [ABC 9:30] The Odd Couple [Reg]: The Pen Is Mightier Than The Pencil
Season 3, episode 4 W: Jack Winter D: Robert Birnbaum With Elinor Donahue (Miriam Welby), Elliott Reid (Gerard Ferguson), Wally Cox (Mr. Fegivney), Phil Leeds (Mr. Kalteman), Tracy Reed (Mrs. Flood). Felix decides to become a writer and Oscar thinks he's wasting his time and money. (Repeat program, originally aired 10/6/1972)
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| [ABC 10:00] Love, American Style [Reg]
1. Love And The Pick-Up Fantasy With Herb Edelman (Phil), Erica Campbell (Girl at Bar), Robert Hogan (Mark), J.S. Johnson (Bartender), Loretta Swit (Doris). A man decides to revive his dull marriage by acting out a fantasy -- that he's gone into a bar and picked up a beautiful girl. 2. Love And The Hairy Excuse With Ronda Copland (Toni), Ann Prentiss (Clara), Dick Shawn (Howard). A man pretends to be a werewolf to make his wife excuse his philandering. 3. Love And Lady Luck With James Millhollin (Nervous Gambler), Catherine Burns (Cynthia), Ellen Corby (Granny Gambler), Jack LaRue (Mr. Smith), Pat Morita (Bellhop), Todd Susman (O'Brien), Allen Jaffe (Bodyguard), Tony Cristino (Stickman). A couple goes to a Las Vegas hotel for their honeymoon, only to discover that the wife is a compulsive gambler.
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| [NBC 10:00] The Bobby Darin Show [Reg]: Bobby Darin In Concert
Season 1, episode 13 With Peggy Lee. Darin sings solo and joins Peggy in a medley of love songs. (Last show of the series.)
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